See How The World Can Change: The Solutions Agenda 2025

What if we could focus on the conversations and actions that truly change the world? That’s the idea behind The Conduit’s inaugural Solutions Agenda-a bold plan for tackling some of the biggest challenges we face today, from climate resilience to social justice, sustainable cities, and more.
This isn’t just another list of problems. It’s a blueprint for progress, highlighting the areas where we can make the greatest impact by bringing together brilliant minds, fresh ideas, and actionable solutions. And we’re not stopping there. Throughout the year, this agenda will be a key part of our conversations-expect inspiring events, thought-provoking articles, and collaborations that spark real change.
The Conduit’s co-founder, Paul van Zyl, and Financial Times Chair of the Editorial Board, Gillian Tett, lead an evening of big ideas, lively discussions, and plenty of inspiration as we launch the 2025 Solutions Agenda. Gillian, a renowned journalist and author of Anthro-Vision, brings her expertise in uncovering the social and cultural forces behind some of the world’s biggest challenges to this critical conversation.
Together, let’s spark the conversations and actions that will make this year one to remember.
Gillian Tett serves as the Chair of the Editorial Board and Editor-at-Large, US, at the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns on a wide range of economic, financial, political, and social issues.
Gillian is the co-founder of FT Moral Money, a twice-weekly newsletter tracking the ESG revolution in business and finance, which has become a flagship FT product.
She is the author of several acclaimed books, including The Silo Effect, which examines the global economy and financial system through the lens of cultural anthropology, and Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe, a 2009 New York Times bestseller and Financial Book of the Year at the inaugural Spear’s Book Awards.
Her most recent book, Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See Life and Business, has received multiple accolades, including being named The Times and Financial Times Book of the Year.
Paul van Zyl is the co-Founder of The Conduit and Chief Creative Officer. Paul is a winner of the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He served as the Executive Secretary of South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission and co-founded the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), an international human rights organisation based in New York City.

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Thank you very inspiring. It is difficult to tackle these crises with the same tools which caused the problem in the first place. Ultimately, the abolishing of all interests will be balancing the world's financial system and give us a long time sustainable relationship with money. I loved the flooding ideas, and may I just add not letting any water flow back in the sea is the only possibility to intervene climate change. Make the earth a sponge again in fife years, sea levels start dropping. Love it